KV engine setup

[JShadzi at aol.com]

The vacuum advance most definitely does something at idle, other than deceleration, there is not other higher vacuum condition than idle.

Javad

> Interesting. The good ol' Haynes manual specifies for the KV
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> 'vacuum hose on, 17 to 19 degrees BTDC at idle'.
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> Looks like the vacuum advance is doing nothing at idle. Which is
>reasonable. As Mihnea says, this is CIS, not CIS-E, no cat,no lambda, no
>duty cycle. Not much to go wrong and 136bhp bone stock.
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>
>rob
>----- Original Message ----- > Message: 9
>> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:52:12 +0200
>> To: JShadzi at aol.com, quattro at isham-research.com, urq at audifans.com,
>> quattro at audifans.com
>> From: Mihnea Cotet <mik at info.fundp.ac.be>
>> Subject: Re: KV engine setup
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>> The KV engine is a basic CIS with vacuum advance, the correct specs
>> according to the factory repair manual are 18 degree BTDC with vacuum
>> disconnected, CO should be 1 +/- 0.2% at idle. This engine has no cat.
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>> HTH,
>>
>> Mihnea
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>> At 15:23 30/09/2003 -0400, JShadzi at aol.com wrote:
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>> >[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
>> >Phil, is that the basic CISE system with vacuum advance distributor?  If
>so,
>> >close off vacuum signal to dist and set base timing to 6d BTDC, reconnect
>> >vacuum signal, also ensure that the vacuum advance cannister is not
>> >leaking, which
>> >it likely is.
>> >
>> >Javad
>> >
>> >In a message dated 9/30/2003 11:59:43 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>> >quattro at isham-research.com writes:
>> >Anyone know the official way to set up the timing on a KV?
>> >
>> >--
>> >   Phil Payne
>> >   http://www.isham-research.com
>> >   +44 7785 302 803
>> >   +49 173 6242039
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